Tourism HR Canada

Tourism HR Canada is a national organization working for the tourism sector in Canada, a $88.5 billion industry employing over 1.7 million people including over 500,000 youth. The organization works to identify and address labour market issues in the Canadian tourism sector. Its main goals include improving the quality and mobility of the tourism workforce and supplying tourism businesses with the labour market intelligence they need to plan for and overcome their current and future human resource challenges.

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Are you looking for up-to-date information on the state of the tourism industry? Each year, Tourism HR Canada conducts, updates, and publishes several major reports containing the most recent data of interest to members of the tourism sector.

In the popular imagination, tourism and students have often been linked due to the tradition of the “summer job”. This has been viewed as beneficial to both the employers, who need seasonal employees, and the students who need seasonal work. This analysis of data from the Labour Force Survey suggests that link is weakening as the number of tourism jobs rapidly increases, and student labour force participation drops.